Wow, what a sweet idea Matthew!  Applying rules of English (like Q is always followed 
by U) to look for gibberish.   :)

Yea, so long as BODY searches attachments, any small code will sooner or later show up 
in an attachment.  I've even had problems trying hard tests for complete words where 
an L was replaced with an I and it showed up in attachment PDF code.

Dan



On Wednesday, September 10, 2003 13:36, Matthew Bramble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dan Patnode wrote:
>
>>Good point,
>>
>>The goal then should be to differentiate numbers used as codes
>from numbers used to confuse.  The former tend to be contiguous
>while the later (in my experience), tend to be mixed in with
>letters.  Perhaps if the test counted numbers with letters on both sides?
>>
>>Dan
>>
>
>If you are looking for gibberish, look to the subject line and not the 
>sender.  I actually have a decent test for this in the subject line 
>(don't use it in the body).  The only false positives would come from 
>very strange acronyms and auto-generated code such as tracking/receipt 
>numbers.  This scores higher the more gibberish you catch.  It's been 
>safe so far for me.
>
>
>GIBBERISHSUB        filter        C:\IMail\Declude\GibberishSub.txt    
>x    1    0
>
>
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qb
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qc
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qd
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qe
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qf
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qg
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qh
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qi
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qj
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qk
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qm
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qn
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qo
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qp
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qr
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qs
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qt
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qv
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qx
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qy
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    qz
>
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    vq
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    wq
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    tq
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    jq
>
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    xd
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    xj
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    xk
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    xr
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    xz
>
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zb
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zc
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zf
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zj
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zk
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zl
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zm
>SUBJECT        2    CONTAINS    zx
>
>
>
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